Leonard A. Pierce

Partner

Leonard Pierce’s investment management and securities practice focuses on representing institutional and entrepreneurial investment managers and private and registered investment funds in all aspects of their businesses. In addition to regularly advising investment managers on securities, regulatory and compliance matters, Mr. Pierce has particular experience with structuring new managers, and counseling new and established managers on strategic relationships, management transitions and succession planning, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and lift outs of investment management businesses.

Mr. Pierce has particular experience with strategic relationships, mergers and acquisitions, and lift outs of investment management businesses, representing both purchasers and sellers of such businesses.

Professional Activities

Mr. Pierce serves as the Chair of the Investment Committee of the Massachusetts Service Alliance, a private, nonprofit organization that serves as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ commission on community service, after previously being appointed by two governors of the Commonwealth to serve as a commissioner of the MSA.

Mr. Pierce is also a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President – Legal of the Boston Minuteman Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

He is a member of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations, and a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Subcommittee on Investment Companies and Investment Advisers.

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